Sunday, February 22, 2009

The Oscars, with customary razzamatazz, are to be awarded tonight. I'm rolling with the flow, and as much razzamatazz as I can muster. Below are my personal blogland awards, based on ....what else? The Planets! Hugh Jackman offered to come and present these, but then, sadly for me, found he had a prior engagement.

I'll avoid allocating Sun and Moon Awards - too contentious by far. I will say that ELSAdeserves a strong nomination for both, for her stirling and on-going efforts on Astro Dispatch, throwing light on all our work.See widget in sidebar.

My Mercury Award for enabling communication and learning at no cost to us goes to Blogger and Google both of whom we often take for granted. Without their continuing efforts we'd be much the poorer.

My Venus Award for beautiful writing style:

The Other Side of Sixty (Wisewebwoman) LinkCrow's Feet (Michelle) Link

My Mars Award for fighting spirit and unflinching opposition to the wrongs of this world:

My Saturn Award for limiting the risk of virus and spyware contamination to our computers goes to all Anti-virus and Anti-spyware software developers.Without the safeguards they provide, we'd be a mess!

My Uranus Award for reaching out beyond the obvious, putting a new twist on ancient materials goes to:

All those who blog, write, practice or teach astrology in whatever capacity.

From the communal work of these people, I'm confident that Carl Sagan's "something incredible waiting to be discovered" will, one day, emerge. Links to many of these astrologers and bloggers appear in my sidebar; many more are available via the Astro Dispatch widget.

My Neptune Award for imaginative, creative content often linked to photography:Lost Gallery LinkThinks Happen Link(Both are by Anyjazz, who is aka The Husband/Himself )

My Pluto Award for penetrating insight, occasional dips into darkness, a tinge of the mystical:

I'd like to thank my mother who had the wisdom to hatch me at 11:55am, when Scorpio touched my ascendant at 28 degrees and Mars landed in my 8th house. Without these two aspects, Pluto would be something to run from instead of towards.

I'd also like to thank Elsa for picking up my blog while being so encouraging early on and Twilight's always much appreciated interest and support in my occasional dark musings.

I'm truly appreciative of your flattery, Mistress Twilight, though I must confess to finding Mars a trifle disappointing since Lowell's famous canals were discovered to be non-existent. My plans to build a marina and flog narrowboat holidays to the Martians, were roundly dashed.

Notwithstanding, I shall proudly display this fine award on Sparrow Chat, for everyone to see and all the world to marvel at.

RJ ~~~ I struggled to decide whether you should be the 3rd co-holder of the Venus Award, to reflect times when you lapse into beautiful prose, but decided that, on balance, your strength (blog-wise) is in opposing the nasties in war-like fashion (very Mars).

One of your Planetary Award recipients, Michelle of Crow's Feet, honored me with the Mercury award on February 24. Would you be so kind as to permit me to post a copy of the badge on my blog, with a link back to this post and credit to you, as well as a big thank you to Michelle, of course.

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About Me

Also answers to Ann or Annie or even Twilight Annie (sounds like a character from Dickens - or Damon Runyan!)
British-born, living in the USA since 2004, US citizen since 2008.
Self-taught non-professional dabbler in astrology, which took up most of the blog-space here from Aug. 2006 to Aug. 2012. The blog now covers more general topics, along with occasional astrology- related posts. Archives can be accessed easily via links in the sidebar.